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title: "Door, latch and AutoRelease repair cost"
description: "Dacor door, latch and AutoRelease repair cost — what door, latch and AutoRelease repair costs on a Dacor in South Florida, from $135, and what moves that…"
url: "https://dacormiami.support/repair-cost/dishwasher-door-latch-repair-cost/"
date_modified: "2026-09-12"
Appliance type: "dishwasher"
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# Dacor door, latch and AutoRelease repair cost

### Why this figure is a from

A mechanical repair that presents as an electrical one, which is why it is priced modestly: the diagnosis is quick once somebody knows to look at the door with the cabinet panel on.

### What we will not do

We do not quote a repair over the telephone from a description, and we do not publish a final price anywhere on this site. Both are the same rule. On this badge there is a second reason: almost everything this make sells is fitted into something — a column in a trim kit, a wall oven in a tall unit, a hood liner inside somebody else’s millwork — and until the installation has been seen, half the estimate is missing. There is a third as well. This make changed hands in 2016, and an appliance from before that is a different repair with a different parts channel from one built after. We would rather establish both than guess at a number.

What moves this figure

from $135, and the three things that move it

Access and the era are quoted separately — both change the hour before the part does

Confirmed on site in writing, and we say when a repair is not worth doing

Hinge cable, spring or latch

Three parts along the same failure. A frayed cable and a tired spring both drop the door, and the latch is only the place it shows.

What the door front weighs

The springs are tensioned for a panel. A heavier front fitted later puts the door out within months and will do it again unless the tension is set for it.

Whether the release mechanism is involved

The door that opens itself at the end of a cycle is part of the drying system, and a release that fires mid-cycle is a different repair from one that never fires.

Why this figure is a from

A mechanical repair that presents as an electrical one, which is why it is priced modestly: the diagnosis is quick once somebody knows to look at the door with the cabinet panel on.

What we will not do

We do not quote a repair over the telephone from a description, and we do not publish a final price anywhere on this site. Both are the same rule. On this badge there is a second reason: almost everything this make sells is fitted into something — a column in a trim kit, a wall oven in a tall unit, a hood liner inside somebody else’s millwork — and until the installation has been seen, half the estimate is missing. There is a third as well. This make changed hands in 2016, and an appliance from before that is a different repair with a different parts channel from one built after. We would rather establish both than guess at a number.

### Why is it a from and not a price?

Because the same job is not the same work on two machines. On this badge there are two large variables before the part is even named: whether the appliance is captured by cabinetry, and which side of 2016 it was built. Either can change the hour, and the second can change the part number entirely. The exact cost is confirmed on site, in writing, before anything is opened.

### Is the diagnostic on top of this?

The diagnostic is from $95 and it is credited toward the repair when you go ahead. Where the answer is that the machine is not worth fixing — or that a part for a discontinued platform is genuinely no longer made — you have paid for the answer and not for a part.

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